The real estate daily dish

•Metrostudy releases its second quarter new housing numbers. Read the story about the “sloppy bottom” of the market in tomorrow’s Express-News.

•The New York Times has a story about how mortgage servicers have no real incentive to help homeowners with loan workouts. They make more money when people fall into foreclosure.

Even when borrowers stop paying, mortgage companies that service the loans collect fees out of the proceeds when homes are ultimately sold in foreclosure. So the longer borrowers remain delinquent, the greater the opportunities for these mortgage companies to extract revenue — fees for insurance, appraisals, title searches and legal services.

•How will housing change in the wake of the current national crisis? Marty Frames at Cyberhomes.com considers the impact of selling homes to too many people during the boom and whether homeownership-for-all is a good idea.

“The plain truth is that we may have surpassed an upper limit of true homeownership capacity in this country,” he writes.